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ePClFICATII forming part of Letters @atente No. :g-E28, daec'anuary'zs,11886.

Application filed May 11, 1885. Serial No. 165,004. (No model.)

Tolail whom it may concern.:

-Beit known that I, NELSON F. Tieren, a Acitizen of the United States,residing at Bald win City, in the county of Douglas and ffl of Kansas,have invented certain new and i. ful Improvements in Egg-Trays, of whichfollowing is a specifcation,..reference had thereinto the accompanyingdrawin 'My invention relates to improveinWV in egg-'trays and in themeans of packingtlie same in barrels or boxesv for shipping; and itconsists of trays made of pasteboard, carel-board,- veneer, or othersuitable material provided with a series of circular openings, and paper'pockets secured therein, and so arranged that when said egg'trays areproperlyvitted in a barrel orbox and their pockets, as well as thespaceabetneen saidmoelr etsare filled .with eggs they can readily beplaced one on top of the other, and the eggs thusbe shipped to anydistance. 1

The invention will first be`hereinafter described, and then specificallyset forth in the claims. 1

Figure l`vrepresents a top view of my improved egg-trayfor usein arectangular packing-box. Fig. 2 is a view ofthe same, showing the underegg-trays in dotted lines. Fig. 3 represents a top view of a circularegg-tray, to be used.in a barrel. Fig. 4 is avertical section on linexx, Fig. 2, of a portion ef a box and trays arranged as in Fig'. 2. Fig.5 represents one of 'the blanks from which the egg-pockets are formed.Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the'blanks curled and .formedinto a pocket, ready for use, and Fig.'

7 is a full-size pocket in section.

Like letters refer to like parts in the figures. In the drawings, Arepresents an egg-tray made of pasteboard, card-board, vencer, or

`any other suitable material, and composed of three parts. A and A2represent the upper and lower sheets,having a series of circularperforations,

a, large enough to receive an egg. Said sheets can be made of differentforms and sizes, rectangular'to :it in a box, and round to enter abarrel. The pockets B are formed of strong Manila paper bentin the formof a blunt cor-v nucopia, having its small end. out off' or perforated,and its rim flanged outwardly to rest p upon the lower sheet, and becomesecured between the two sheets A and A2 by means of paste or glue.,while the body ofthe pockets passes through the perforatiens a. Thepockets are made ont of a semicircnlar blank. (Represented in Fig. 5.)lt is slightly dampened and coiled into a cornucopia, v.and the rim bbent outwardly, as in Fig. 6. The surface ofthe sheet' vA3 is coveredwith glue, and the egg-pockets placed in the perforations a. Then thesheet A is placed upon the sheet A2, and united or com.-

dried or hardened the tray, is ready for use.v

The rectangular trays in Figs. l and 2 are represented as having narrowmargins C and .pressed together, and when the glued has wide margins C'from its edges t'o the side of the pockets B, and the distances .betweenthe pockets being all alike when 'the trays are filled' withveggs andproperly placed in a box,

as shown in Figs and 4,' Vthe narrow" margins C are placed above thewide margins C', and' the wide margins C placed above the narrow marginsC ofthe tray below. The bottom openf ings,b',of the pockets B of theupper tray thusAv rest upon the solid foundation C between four pocketsof the tray below. Thus the points of the eggs in the upper tray arestanding in the space termed by the butts of the eggs in the tray below,and as the spaces between the circular openings in the'pasteboard 1sre-en `forced; by the dange b of the vcups these openings can be madesofclose together'that each,

egg is protected by the adjoining cups, andI am enabled to pack moreeggs in the same space than is done in egg-packers unprovided with paperpockets. Each egg is firmly held point and' butt lby the pockets in.thetrays. The saine result is obtained with circular eggtrays for barrels,as shown in Fig. 3, by giving every alternate tray a quarter-revolutionfrom the tray under it, thus placing the narrow margin C of the traysabove'the-wide margin C of the, tray below until the box or barrel isfilled: 4' n l am aware that egg-cells have been made of rubber,flannel, and cloth, land that eggtrays havebeen made of pasteboard, andof paperpulp properly pressed or molded, and, do not claim any of thesematerials.

claim--v l. in an egg-tray, the combination ofVA the sheets A and A2,provided with perforationsl 10o Having now fully described myinvent'on Ia, with the pockets B, formed of paper coiled as a eornucopimend havinga. anged rim, b, and opening b', substantially as and for the purposedescribed. r 5 2. In an egg-tray, the combination of the sheet A2,having perforations a, and pockets each consisting of conieally-coiledpaper having its outer rim flanged `and cemented tothe sheet A2,substantiallyl'vas and for the purpose io described..

3. An egg cell consisting of paper conically coiled and molded, andhaving an opening in its small end and a flange, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I- afx my signature in I 5 presence of twowitnesses.

NELSON F. TIPTON.

Vitness'es: j

A. G. PASLEY, MICHEL DYER.

